Podcast Episodes

The Empire Has No Clothes

Episode 199

Mark Thornton examines the collapse of trust in Washington as government debt, monetary inflation, and foreign wars undermine America's standing at h…

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Violent Populism

Episode 198

Mark Thornton examines the rise of political violence in America, drawing on Robert Pape’s Our Own Worst Enemies and its warning that political viole…

1 week ago

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Market Coiling

Episode 197

Mark Thornton examines whether the precious metals market is coiling after last year’s push, this year’s correction, and months of volatility driven …

2 weeks ago

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Debt, War, and the Tangled Web

Episode 196

Mark Thornton opens with Sir Walter Scott’s famous “tangled web” line, using John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and Richard Cantillon’s response to frame …

3 weeks ago

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Will AI Bonds Doom Humanity?

Episode 195

Mark Thornton opens with a recap of inflation, commodity prices, interest rates, and stagnant real wages before turning to “bubble bonds”: the explos…

4 weeks ago

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Whistling Past the Graveyard

Episode 194

Mark Thornton follows up on last week’s episode by arguing that the Trump administration, Chairman Warsh, and Secretary Bessent are using short-term …

1 month ago

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Market Theater, Gold, and the AI Bubble

Episode 193

Mark Thornton opens by tracing the Soros-linked circle of Scott Bessent, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Kevin Warsh, arguing that Treasury and Fed offici…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Printability Matters

Episode 192

Mark Thornton opens with a warning from Jackson Hole: the Fed’s public mandate is a cover story. Its real job is to serve the big banks and the state…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Austrian Economics, Gold, and the Fed’s Confidence Game

Episode 191

Mark Thornton opens with an interview from the Rothbard Graduate Seminar on what makes Austrian economics distinct, why the Mises Institute matters, …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Government Intervention and Economic Inequality

Episode 185

Mark Thornton revisits his Mises University lecture on government intervention and economic inequality, arguing that intervention does not merely shr…

2 months ago

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